by Orna Ross | Mar 31, 2023 | Fiction |
I have made changes to my fiction patronage, moving it off Patreon over here to my own website. If you've been a patron over there, you'll know that it was a bit confusing, wading through self-publishing advice and poetry to find the posts that were relevant to you....
by Orna Ross | Mar 17, 2023 | Poetry |
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by Orna Ross | Mar 15, 2023 | Fiction |
Thank you for your patience with me while I did my major revamp and site move–and worked out how to segment my communications for subscribers and patrons. It's taken a while to figure out how to ensure you are getting the information you want from me — and...
by Orna Ross | Aug 1, 2022 | Go Creative! |
I'm taking some weeks away from the blog, and other activities, as we go through an upgrade here at Orna Ross Publications and also at the Alliance of Independent Authors, and then head off to beautiful Puglia, south Italy, for a holiday. Back on September 5th. If...
by Orna Ross | Jul 22, 2022 | Fiction |
I'm getting close to publishing the first three books in my Gonne-Yeats series and have been working on the covers and blurbs. As I've explained elsewhere, this project began as one book and has now morphed into a series. Earlier versions of Book 2 and 3 previously...
by Orna Ross | Jul 15, 2022 | Fiction |
I've mapped out and finalized the Gonne-Yeats series running order. It's going to be a seven-book series, with each book focussing on a different aspect of love. This involved a lot more plotting than I usually do, as I had to account for real life dates and doings...
by Orna Ross | Jul 10, 2022 | Poetry |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “The Living Moment”. Enjoy! The Living Moment Whatever is going...
by Orna Ross | Jul 8, 2022 | Fiction |
I'm happy to see that the WB Yeats Bedford Park Project is back in post-pandemic action! I was a proud supporter of the crowdfunder that raised money to create this public artwork in Bedford Park, West London, where WB Yeats spent some childhood years, and much of his...
by Orna Ross | Jul 3, 2022 | Poetry |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “What I Want”. Enjoy! What I Want I want to sing like the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 1, 2022 | Fiction |
Ninety-nine years ago, my great-uncle Con (my father's uncle, pictured left), was shot and killed in the Irish Civil War in Wexford. Fifty years later, I grew up in the same small rural village as him, a village called Murrintown, a village that never mentioned the...